Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620. First Callot Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in 18th century tree calf leather, gilt ruled and decorated spine with the cypher "RD" or "RLD," edges speckled blue-green; marbled endpapers; [10], 65, [1] pages: [1], [4], A2, B1, C2-F2, G1, H2-I2, L2, M1, N2-R2, S1, T2-V2, X1, Y2-Z2, Aa-Cc2, Dd1, Ee2-Qq2, Rr1, Ss2-Vv2. Engraved architectural title page, 34 double-page plates showing 46 plans and views by Jacques Callot, including a plan of Jerusalem after Antonio de Angelis (1578), woodcut printer's device at end. The first edition of this rare work was published in 1609 in Rome with plates by Antoine Tempesta, with whom the celebrated French engraver Jacques Callot (1592-1635) later worked and with whom he went to Florence in 1614. It was there that the dedicatee of this edition, Cosimo II de'Medici, commissioned the plates for this edition. Callot reworked several of the original plates and added 9 new ones. They are unique in the work of Callot and made at the beginning of his most productive period. The format of the work is unusual. The plates were apparently printed first, on double-page sheets, then descriptive letterpress for each plate was set up to be printed on the versos of the plates. If there was more text than could be accommodated on the two versos, a single leaf was set up to print the remainder of the text. These odd leaves were signed as part of the ordinary alphabetic sequence. The author, the Franciscan Bernardo Amico, was Prior of his Order at Jerusalem from 1596 onwards for a period of five yea
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Venice: Marco Ginami, 1620. [76], 1011; [40] 536 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Old vellum. [76], 1011; [40] 536 pp. 2 vols. 4to. This Italian translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, "Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans," was first composed in 1555 for Guidobaldo II, duke of Urbino, by the humanist Ludovico Domenichi. Domenichi's translation renders Plutarch's Parallel Lives, which was composed as a series of 23 paired biographies of Greeks and Romans and four individual lives, into fluid Italian prose. Plutarch is sometimes described as an early moral philosopher because of the way in which he links physical appearance to moral character: figures such as Alexander the Great are strikingly handsome, and Plutarch's focus was less on history than on the impact of character on one's destiny. While some of the lives (such as that of Heracles) have been lost, the remaining figures run the gamut of Greek and Roman mythology and history, from Theseus to Julius Caesar. This 1620 edition, in a delicate italic script with printed marginal glosses, was printed by Antonino Turini at the press of Marco Ginami in Venice. Turini is sometimes described as the first printer in Trieste (P. Kandler). Graesse Vol V p. 370

Bartsch V, Flamen 112-117 (ad 1), 093-095, 099-100, 103 (ad 3), 105-108 (ad 4), 110-111 (ad 5) and supp. 520-526 (ad 2); Robert-Dumesnil, Flamen 365-370 (ad 1); 382-388 (ad 2); 524-526, 530, 531, 534 (ad 3); 520-523 (ad 4); 561-562 (ad 5). Five series of finely executed and well-printed etchings by Albert Flamen, mostly in their first states and all in early states, the five series showing: 1) cavalry fighting viewed from the thick of the battle; 2) wild and domestic animals on or around a farm; 3) views of Château de Longuetoise and its surroundings in Chalo-Saint-Mars, southwest of Paris; 4) views of several areas near Paris; and 5) pastoral views in an unidentified location. Flamen (ca. 1620?-1693 or soon after), a painter, draughtsman and etcher born in Bruges, worked in Paris from 1648 to 1692. He belonged to the French school of Callot and worked mostly after his own designs.With two gold-stamped morocco bookplates. With a faint stain in the upper right corner of the prints in series 3 and 4, but still in very good condition. The hinges are worn, but the binding is otherwise very good. Lovely and rare etchings, mostly in their earliest states, including three complete series.

Atabey 20; Berlin Kat. 2782; Fowler 19; Laor 940 & 941. Second edition, the first to be illustrated by Callot. All etchings are in their first state, with typographical text on the reverse. The etchings are numbered 1-41 and 43-47. "Mariette parle de cette série dans ses 'Notes Manuscrites' (Paris, Cabinet des Estampes). Ces planches, dit-il, sont gravée d'une manière très ferme et le peu de figures qui s'y rencontrent sont des mieux qu'ait faites Callot" (Lieure). Included are a view and a plan of Jerusalem, views of buildings with many details and ground plans unsurpassed for centuries, according to Tobler. Top of spine slightly bumped; endpapers partly restored. Loss of upper corner to p. 53 (fig. 41), remargined using the respective leaf of another copy without illustrations on verso (slight loss to etched border; some glue-staining). Several contemporary marginalia; manuscript notes to endpapers; manuscript index at the end. Good copy of an illustrated work on the Holy Land.

Atabey 20; Berlin Kat. 2782; Fowler 19; Laor 940 & 941. Second edition, the first to be illustrated by Callot. All etchings are in their first state, with typographical text on the reverse. The etchings are numbered 1-41 and 43-47. "Mariette parle de cette série dans ses 'Notes Manuscrites' (Paris, Cabinet des Estampes). Ces planches, dit-il, sont gravée d'une manière très ferme et le peu de figures qui s'y rencontrent sont des mieux qu'ait faites Callot" (Lieure). Included are a view and a plan of Jerusalem, views of buildings with many details and ground plans unsurpassed for centuries, according to Tobler. Top of spine slightly bumped; endpapers partly restored. Loss of upper corner to p. 53 (fig. 41), remargined using the respective leaf of another copy without illustrations on verso (slight loss to etched border; some glue-staining). Several contemporary marginalia; manuscript notes to endpapers; manuscript index at the end. Good copy of an illustrated work on the Holy Land.

xii, 321, [1]; ix, 286; [ii], 193; [ii], 170 pp. 8vo. Four parts bound in one volume, each with separate title page and pagination. Last page of first part lists errata, final part includes errata for parts 2-4 bound in after text. Originally released in two 8vo volumes. This work covers the entire history of the New Plymouth colony from 1620 to the termination of its separate existence when it was annexed to the state of Massachusetts. Sabin 4064. Howes B261.Keywords: AMERICAN HISTORY COLONIAL AMERICANA AMERICA MASSACHUSETTS NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY COLONIES PILGRIMS First edition, association copy. This copy bears a gift note on the front flyleaf reading 'Jane E. Brewster from her brother Henry C. Brewster, Christmas 1919 -- To be given to Alexander Russell, Jr.' Both Jane & Henry were direct descendants of New Plymouth's founder William Brewster. Rebound in black cloth with gilt titles & rules and new marbled endpapers. No jacket. Lightly foxed. Goodspeed catalog number in pencil on front endpaper. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins., 1830. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

1620. First Edition . BACON, Francis. Novum Organum. London: John Bill, 1620. Folio, contemporary sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked and recornered. $25,000.First edition of Bacon's Novum Organum (a ""new instrument"" to replace the old Organon of Aristotle), which had a revolutionary impact on early modern science by laying the foundation of the inductive method.Bacon's ""insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences. He saw clearly the limitations of Aristotelian and scholastic methods and the growing breach between the thinking of his time and that of the Middle Ages is more precisely formulated than in that of, say, Tommaso Campanella or Giordano Bruno. As a philosopher Bacon's influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Leibniz, Huygens and particularly Robert Boyle were deeply indebted to him, as were the Encyclopédistes, and Voltaire, who called him 'le père de la philosophie experimentale"" (PMM). Bacon planned a magnum opus titled Instauratio Magna in six parts, of which he completed only two. This, the Novum Organum, which has remained his most influential work, was intended to be the second part; the first part was not completed until 1623 as De Augmentis Scientiarum, a greatly extended version of his 1605 Advancement of Learning. Thus the Novum Organum’s famous allegorical title page—with its evocative engraving of a ship in full sail passing through the Pillars of Hercules—refers to the work as the Instauratio Magna. The Phil
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- Bartsch V, Flamen 112-117 (ad 1), 093-095, 099-100, 103 (ad 3), 105-108 (ad 4), 110-111 (ad 5) and supp. 520-526 (ad 2); Robert-Dumesnil, Flamen 365-370 (ad 1); 382-388 (ad 2); 524-526, 530, 531, 534 (ad 3); 520-523 (ad 4); 561-562 (ad 5). Five series of finely executed and well-printed etchings by Albert Flamen, mostly in their first states and all in early states, the five series showing: 1) cavalry fighting viewed from the thick of the battle; 2) wild and domestic animals on or around a farm; 3) views of Château de Longuetoise and its surroundings in Chalo-Saint-Mars, southwest of Paris; 4) views of several areas near Paris; and 5) pastoral views in an unidentified location. Flamen (ca. 1620?-1693 or soon after), a painter, draughtsman and etcher born in Bruges, worked in Paris from 1648 to 1692. He belonged to the French school of Callot and worked mostly after his own designs.With two gold-stamped morocco bookplates. With a faint stain in the upper right corner of the prints in series 3 and 4, but still in very good condition. The hinges are worn, but the binding is otherwise very good. Lovely and rare etchings, mostly in their earliest states, including three complete series.

Venice: Marco Ginami, 1620. [76], 1011; [40] 536 pp. 2 vols. 4to. This Italian translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, "Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans," was first composed in 1555 for Guidobaldo II, duke of Urbino, by the humanist Ludovico Domenichi. Domenichi's translation renders Plutarch's Parallel Lives, which was composed as a series of 23 paired biographies of Greeks and Romans and four individual lives, into fluid Italian prose. Plutarch is sometimes described as an early moral philosopher because of the way in which he links physical appearance to moral character: figures such as Alexander the Great are strikingly handsome, and Plutarch's focus was less on history than on the impact of character on one's destiny. While some of the lives (such as that of Heracles) have been lost, the remaining figures run the gamut of Greek and Roman mythology and history, from Theseus to Julius Caesar. This 1620 edition, in a delicate italic script with printed marginal glosses, was printed by Antonino Turini at the press of Marco Ginami in Venice. Turini is sometimes described as the first printer in Trieste (P. Kandler). Graesse Vol V p. 370. Old vellum.

- von Theodor van Keßel (1620 - 1696) nach einer Zeichnung von Diepenbeeck; in der Platte betitelt und bezeichnet; Tafel Nummer 38 aus: William Cavendish, A general system of horsemanship Brindley London 1743 [Das seltene Blatt mittig mit vertikaler geglätteter Bugfalte und durchgängig gebräunt. The fine and rare engraving with vertical smoothed centre fold and completely tanned.] Cavendish's extraordinary didactic work on equestrian dressage. An affluent politician, soldier, and devoted Royalist, William Cavendish fought for Charles I during the English Civil War. He established a riding school in Antwerp with several Barbary horses obtained in Paris, and in 1657, published his revolutionary and influential work on equestrian training techniques, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux'. An English edition was published in 1743 as 'A General System Of Horsemanship In All Ist Branches', with beautiful illustrations of Cavendish skillfully training and riding his horses at his Antwerp ménage and his various English estates like Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey.